I run a cluster of Plex servers using Docker distributed over multiple bare-metal servers. Since users have been upgrading to 1.15 I’ve been seeing a very large spike in memory usage that just keeps spiking the longer the processes live. The average memory usage used to be around the 300MB RSS but t…

could you elaborate on what you call “browsing” ? I’d like to try & replicate, but I’m not getting any noteworthy leak by browsing .

First off make sure you disable local browser image caching. In chrome you can do that by keeping the web inspector open, going to the network tab and then pressing “Disable cache” as long as the inspector is open I think it shouldn’t cache images. Then also wipe your cache folder so Plex will crea…

what are you using to track the PMS process mem usage ? Proxmox usage graph is too crude. top & related doesn’t seem very handy …

The devs added LogMemoryUse to the Preferences.xml file after which most log statements will include the memory usage. See https://support.plex.tv/articles/201105343-advanced-hidden-server-settings/

My Plex and FreeNas are also crashing overnight with an out of swap message on the freenas console. I did turn on LogMemoryUse in Plex and now have the following files in my log directory. Are any of them useful and whom should I send them to? “\root\usr\local\plexdata-plexpass\Plex Media Server\…

I agree with @Animazing . It looks like maybe the memory from the Photo Transcoder is never released. Below is a snippet from a 1 second period where the memory increases 33MB. DEBUG - Request: [99.106.93.114:45175 (WAN)] GET /photo/:/transcode?width=240&height=360&url=%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F125048…

For my system I believe the memory leak is in Analyze audio tracks for loudness. I changed the setting to never and haven’t seen the issue for a few days.

I have moved the posts by @SpinCharm into a separate topic here Excessive Plex Media Server process memory use as the reported problem appears to be different from the other reports here Is there still a problem on the latest release of Plex Media Server ? version 1.21.2.3943-a91458577 ? I would …

[image] I’ve resorted back to restarting the Plex container every couple of days. Judging by the shape of the graph…it looks like it is still leaking.

Just out of curiosity, does this occur with any other docker containers? eg; the linuxserver.io container GitHub - linuxserver/docker-plex

Memory leak since 1.15.x on 300+ Plex Server Instances

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Memory leak since 1.15.x on 300+ Plex Server Instances

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